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November 26th, 2009
It was just a slight cough and a tingling in her fingers.
State Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon wasn’t really worried about either as this year’s regular legislative session was winding down at the Capitol.
“We were all coughing,” she said. “It’s like a meat locker in there.”
As for the tingling, a fellow lawmaker suggested it might be carpal tunnel syndrome because she did a lot of repetitive page-turning as a member of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee.